I am asking you, who is more important? The mobile phone or the man holding the mobile phone more important? Unfortunately, your education is such that it will tell you everything about the mobile phone, but nothing about the man. They ask you to keep looking outwards but they never tell you to look inwards. Self-education is more valuable than the rest of your education put together. Has your education ever brought you close to yourself? Now you decide what is more important.
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Acharya Prashant: Over the last fifteen years or so of your education, what have you studied? You have studied languages, Hindi and English. You have studied History, Politics, Geography. Then you got into Maths, Physics, Chemistry. And now you are students of technology. This is what you have studied. This is what you mean by results.
Are you Hindi, English, or Sanskrit? Are you the laws of physics? Are you the formula in Chemistry? Are you the theorems of Mathematics?
Questioner: No, Sir.
Acharya Prashant: Too bad! Are you the rivers, mountains, and glaciers that you read in Geography? Are you the wars that the kings fought in their respective domains in history? Are you Akbar or Ashoka? Are you a software? Are you a hardware? Are you a motorcycle engine? Are you an electrical circuit? This is what you have studied so far. Don’t you see that all these are things outside of yourself? Somebody wrote the constitution and you are reading the constitution. You are studying how this tube light works. But are you this tube light? This is what your normal education has given you so far. Knowledge about other things, objects. But are you other things? You are not other things.
